Mortality Rate due to Malaria in Thailand

Malaria has been a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Thailand for many decades. The purpose of this study was to model and forecast malaria mortality rate in Thailand using death certificate reports. A retrospective analysis of the malaria mortality rate was conducted. Data were obtained from the national vital registration database for the 10-year period from 2000 to 2009, provided by the Ministry of the Interior and coded as cause-of-death using ICD-10 by the Ministry of Public Health. Multivariate regression was used for modeling and forecasting age-specific malaria mortality rates in Thailand. Malaria mortality increased with increasing age for each sex and was also higher in the Central and Northern provinces. The trends of malaria mortality remained stable in most age groups with decreases in others and decreases during ten-year period (2000 to 2009). Malaria mortality was higher in males and increase with increasing age. There is need of malaria control measures to remain on a sustained and long-term basis for the high malaria burden rate of Thailand.